David Green, Gabriel Mesevage, Graham Mooney, Simon Szreter
{"title":"The new poor law and the health of the population of England and Wales","authors":"David Green, Gabriel Mesevage, Graham Mooney, Simon Szreter","doi":"10.1111/ehr.70035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.70035","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We estimate the impact of reductions in poor law expenditure on rural life expectancy and mortality rates in England and Wales following the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act. Given the scale of cuts imposed, our estimates imply 8–10 per cent increases in mortality at ages 1–4 years and 2–4 per cent falls in rural expectation of life at birth. This is consistent with the reformers’ policy of reducing child allowances for larger families. These results help to explain the weak performance of national mid-nineteenth century life expectancy measures during a period of rising real wages but falling welfare expenditure.</p>","PeriodicalId":47868,"journal":{"name":"Economic History Review","volume":"79 2","pages":"717-756"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2026-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ehr.70035","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148012212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mathias Mølbak Ingholt, Maarten van Wijhe, Lone Simonsen, Daniel Weinberger
{"title":"The disappearance of malaria from Denmark, 1862–1900","authors":"Mathias Mølbak Ingholt, Maarten van Wijhe, Lone Simonsen, Daniel Weinberger","doi":"10.1111/ehr.70025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.70025","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The reason for malaria's disappearance from northwestern Europe in the early twentieth century has long been discussed but remains an unresolved conundrum. This is partially due to a previous focus on the early modern era, and partially because various theories have never been tested against each other. In this study, we test some of the proposed hypotheses using nineteenth-century Denmark as a case. We found that the accelerating agricultural improvements with drainage and increasing livestock per km<sup>2</sup> explained much of the declining incidence rates, whilst other factors such as household size, temperatures, and precipitation did not seem to matter. Increased drainage meant dryer surface environment, and this led to a reduced size of the mosquito populations and therefore fewer malaria infections, and increased access to livestock led to changes in the mosquitoes’ feeding preferences. Whilst drainage may have played a key role, it is possible that improvements in housing and clothing materials as well as use of quinine could also have affected malaria trends, although this could not be tested. We conclude that the disappearance of malaria was likely an unanticipated benefit of the agricultural developments related to the modernization of rural Denmark during the nineteenth century.</p>","PeriodicalId":47868,"journal":{"name":"Economic History Review","volume":"79 2","pages":"555-574"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2026-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ehr.70025","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148012222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Income taxes and redistribution in the early twentieth century","authors":"Sara Torregrosa-Hetland, Oriol Sabaté","doi":"10.1111/ehr.70026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.70026","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper examines the distributive effects of personal income taxation in Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States during the first half of the twentieth century. We estimate the evolution of marginal and average effective tax rates across the income distribution and calculate the corresponding indices of progressivity and redistribution. Our results show that redistribution through income taxation increased during the period with varying intensity and mechanisms. During the First World War, this was a joint effect of increases in the amount of revenue collected and progressivity. In contrast, during the Second World War, revenue increased again, but progressivity diminished.</p>","PeriodicalId":47868,"journal":{"name":"Economic History Review","volume":"79 2","pages":"634-660"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2026-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ehr.70026","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148012213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Telegraph and capital market integration: Evidence from late imperial China","authors":"Yu Hao, Yuxiang Wang","doi":"10.1111/ehr.70038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.70038","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Exploiting quasi-exogenous variations in the timing of telegraph construction, the reduction of information costs promotes capital market integration in late imperial China. Employing a difference-in-differences strategy, we find that telegraph connection within a prefecture pair reduced the difference in interest rate by 1.27 percentage points. Institutional quality and transportation accessibility complemented telegraph's role in enhancing capital market integration. In addition, financial intermediaries augmented the telegraph's effect on capital market integration. For the traditional banks (<i>piaohao</i>), the augmenting effect was only salient within firm boundaries, suggesting that information was only exchanged within firm-specific networks.</p>","PeriodicalId":47868,"journal":{"name":"Economic History Review","volume":"79 2","pages":"781-810"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2026-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148012020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to ‘Large-scale Victorian manufacturers: Reconstructing the lost 1881 UK employer census’","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/ehr.70097","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ehr.70097","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Hannah, L. and Bennett, R., ‘Large-scale Victorian manufacturers: Reconstructing the lost 1881 UK employer census’, <i>Economic History Review</i>, 75, (2022), pp. 830–856. https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13118</p><p>In the published version of this article, Leslie Hannah was named as the corresponding author and his contact address was given as <span>[email protected]</span>. Unfortunately, that address has since become inactive. Any responses to the authors’ request for corrections to their data for any of the 438 firms in their online appendix 1 (or other comments) to that address have not been read by their intended recipient. Comments or corrections should henceforth be sent to <span>[email protected]</span>.</p><p>We apologize for this error.</p>","PeriodicalId":47868,"journal":{"name":"Economic History Review","volume":"79 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2026-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ehr.70097","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146091230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of periodical literature for 2024: 1700–1850","authors":"Juan José Rivas Moreno","doi":"10.1111/ehr.70076","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ehr.70076","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47868,"journal":{"name":"Economic History Review","volume":"79 1","pages":"436-446"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146091223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Capitalism in the Colonies: African Merchants in Lagos, 1851–1931. A. G. Hopkins, (Princeton University Press, 2024. Pp. 576. ISBN 9780691258843. Hbk £42.00)","authors":"Stephanie Decker","doi":"10.1111/ehr.70078","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ehr.70078","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47868,"journal":{"name":"Economic History Review","volume":"79 1","pages":"397-398"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146091224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of periodical literature published in 2024: 1945–present","authors":"Meredith M. Paker","doi":"10.1111/ehr.70072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.70072","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47868,"journal":{"name":"Economic History Review","volume":"79 1","pages":"455-466"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146091279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of periodical literature for 2024: 1500–1700","authors":"Hillary Taylor","doi":"10.1111/ehr.70075","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ehr.70075","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47868,"journal":{"name":"Economic History Review","volume":"79 1","pages":"424-435"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146083254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of periodical literature for 2024: 1850–1945","authors":"Tehreem Husain","doi":"10.1111/ehr.70074","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ehr.70074","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47868,"journal":{"name":"Economic History Review","volume":"79 1","pages":"447-454"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146091280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}